Pieter Pourbus, c 1523 – January 30, 1584, was a Flemish painter, draftsman, and cartographer. He was probably born in Gouda and settled in Bruges by the early 1540s. He became a master in the Bruges Guild of St Luke in 1543 and married Anna Blondeel, daughter of the painter Lanceloot Blondeel.

Pourbus painted portraits, religious works, altarpieces, allegorical subjects, and civic commissions. His work is associated with the Bruges tradition of detailed Netherlandish painting, adapted to mid-sixteenth-century portraiture and religious imagery. He also produced maps and topographical works, including important cartographic commissions for the region around Bruges.

Pourbus’s pupils and workshop connections included his son Frans Pourbus the Elder, who continued the family’s painting tradition. His works are held by the Groeningemuseum, Bruges; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum Gouda; The Wallace Collection, London; Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp; and other public and private collections.

Portrait of Paulus de Nigro, 1518
Oil on panel, 13.5 x 10.6 in
Groeningemuseum, Bruges

Portrait of a Young Minister, mid-16th century
Oil on oak wood, 16.7 x 12.2 in
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

An Allegory of True Love, c 1547
Oil on panel, 52.2 x 80.9 in
The Wallace Collection, London

The Last Judgment, 1551
Oil on oak wood, 89.9 x 71.2 in
Groeningemuseum, Bruges

Portrait of Jacquemyne Buuck, 1551
Oil on panel, 38.3 x 28 in
Groeningemuseum, Bruges

The Annunciation, interior of left wing, 1552
Oil on panel, 46.1 x 44.1 in
Museum Gouda, The Netherlands

Portrait of an Unknown Woman, 1554
Oil on panel, 16.2 x 12.2 in
Museum Gouda, The Netherlands

The Lamentation of Christ, 1555–1560
Oil on canvas, 84.6 x 65.4 in
Schorr Collection, on long-term loan to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

An Unknown Lady, Holding a Pomander on a Gold Chain, 1560
The Weiss Gallery, London

The Last Supper, 1562
Oil on panel, 57.7 x 90.7 in
Church of Our Lady, Bruges

Portrait of Francois Van der Straten, 1567
Oil on canvas, 26.8 x 25 in
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Portrait of Jan Lopez Gallo and His Three Sons, 1568
Oil on panel, 38.5 x 20.4 in
Groeningemuseum, Bruges

Jan Janssens, Flemish painter, August 1590 – after 1650

The annunciation, 17th century Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 87.4 in // Museum of the Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium

Jan Provost, Flemish painter, 1462/65 – January 1529

The Crucifixion, between circa 1515 and circa 1520 Oil on panel, 40.1 x 31.2 in // Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Belgium

The Angel Announcing to Abraham the Birth of a Son, 16th century Oil on wood, 28 x 22.8 in // Louvre, Paris

Death and the Miser, first half of 16th century Oil on oak wood, 47.2 x 31.1 in // Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium

Donor with St Nicholas and his Wife with St Godelina, first half of 16th century Oil on oak wood, 47.2 x 31.1 in // Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium

The Martyrdom of St Catherine, first half of 16th century Oil on panel, 37 x 26.7 in // Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Jan van der Venne, Flemish painter, fl. 1616–1651

Study of the head of an Old Man, between c 1616 and c 1650 Oil on panel, 86.6 x 62.9 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Adriaen Thomasz. Key, Flemish painter, c. 1544 – after 1589

St Jerome in his Study, circa 1550 Oil on panel, 37.2 x 28.5 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Frans Pourbus the Elder, Flemish painter, 1545–September 19, 1581

Frans Pourbus the Elder, Portrait of a man, possibly a self-portrait

Viglius van Aytta, Dutch Statesman, Jurist, between 1562 and 1567 Oil on panel, 42.5 x 33 in // Louvre Museum, Paris